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Miraj Ahmed
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 13
Bio:
Miraj Ahmed is a practising painter and architect. He has worked with Pierre dAvoine Architects and Stanton Williams on various projects, and now with Andrzej Blonski Architects. Paintings and drawings exhibited in London, Cambridge and Marseille. |
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Pedro Ignacio Alonso
Unit/Programme:History & Critical Thinking (HCT), Visiting School
Bio: Pedro Ignacio Alonso studied architecture at the Catholic University in Chile and completed his PhD at the AA on the modernist conceptualisation of architecture as a work of assemblage. He has taught at the AA since 2005, currently as visiting tutor at the AA HTS Masters Programme, and is professor of architecture at the Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago. Recent publications include A panel’s tale: KPD and the Politics of Assemblage (AA Files 59, London 2009); Acronym (AA Files 57, London 2008); and Post-Digital (MArq 04, Santiago 2008). In 2008 he received a RIBA Research Trust Award, and more recently he has been awarded with a Fellowship as Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal (2010–11).
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Medine Altiok
Unit/Programme:Visiting School
Bio: Medine Altiok, a German-Turkish architect, graduated from the AA in 2000. She is founder of MOCA Office for Culture and Architecture based in Zurich and initiator of a series of research projects dealing with cultural, political and economic changes in the Mediterranean. She has been teaching at ETH Zurich since 2005 with Prof. Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow Wow, Tokyo) and Prof. Felix Claus (Claus en Kaan, Amsterdam). Together with Stephanie Tunka, she is programme director of the AA Visiting School Mittelmeerland series. See www.medinealtiok.com and www.mittelmeerland.org
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Nuria Alvarez Lombardero
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 8, Visiting School
Bio:
Nuria Alvarez Lombardero studied architecture at ETSA Madrid and the Housing and Urbanism MA at the AA. She has worked for Machado & Silvetti in Boston, and was part of the editorial board of Neutra magazine. She has co-directed Canales & Lombardero since 2003 and has lectured at the University of Seville and worked as a researcher at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA. She is currently finalising her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning. |
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Alisa Andrasek
Unit/Programme:Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
Bio: Alisa Andrasek is a director of BIOTHING and an experimental practitioner of architecture and computation. She graduated from the University of Zagreb, and holds a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she has also taught, as well as at Pratt, UPENN, RMIT Melbourne and RPI. Andrasek won the Metropolis Next Generation Award in 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Scripted by Purpose, Philadelphia 2007; Seroussi pavilion and Ars Mathematica, both Paris 2007; the 2003 Prague Biennale; Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004/06/08; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 2005. She curated the East Coast section of the Emergent Talent Emergent Technologies exhibition for the 2006 and 2008 Beijing Biennial.
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Ran Ankory
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Bio: Details to come
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Ana Araujo
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 2
Bio: Ana Araujo practices as a designer, tutor and researcher. She works at the crossover between spatial and textile design, having published and exhibited internationally (Australia, Brazil, Germany, Holland, UK). She is a co-founder of Atelier Domino, a London-based studio committed to the realisation of hand-crafted art and design.
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Charles Arsène-Henry
Unit/Programme:Media Studies (MS)
Bio: Charles Arsène-Henry is a writer and editor based in London. He founded White Box Black Box, a speculative agency exploring formats of research and fiction. In 2010 he curated with Shumon Basar the exhibition Translated By at the AA. He is conceiving The Library is on Fire with the Luma Foundation.
charles@whiteboxblackbox.co.uk |
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Pier Vittorio Aureli
Unit/Programme:Diploma Unit 14, History & Theories Studies
Bio: studied architecture at IUAV in Venice, from which he obtained his doctorate in urbanism, and at the Berlage Institute. He is completing his PhD thesis at the Berlage/TU Delft. Aureli coordinates the second year research programme at the Berlage and is Guest Professor at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and at TU/Delft.
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Jorge Ayala
Unit/Programme:AA Visiting School Paris Director
Bio: Mexico-City born Jorge Ayala founded [Ay]A in 2010.
[Ay]A is an international design studio based in Paris committed to cutting edge research and material experimentation, across scales. [Ay]A engages with multidisciplinary fields from fashion design, architecture to landscape urbanism, complex organisational systems and strategies in both theoretical and professional praxis. Since 2008, Jorge has lectured globally and led workshops in the United Kingdom, China, Iran, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Canada among others. In 2013, Jorge has been appointed to become the Mitchell Lab Designer Program Director at Texas A&M University in the United States. |
